Duck Rescue 2011

Vic­to­ria’s an­nu­al duck shoot­ing sea­son yet again opened with hor­rif­ic in­juries and suf­fer­ing for count­less birds.

This is the 25th year that an­i­mal ac­tivists have been busy on the wet­lands do­ing all they can to res­cue the in­jured and dis­tract the shoot­ers from their dead­ly ‘re­cre­a­tion’. UP­ROAR and ALV or­ganised res­cue teams to help cov­er the Kerang area, a high­ly pop­u­lar shoot­ing spot while the Coali­tion Against Duck Shoot­ing (CADS) or­ganised the main res­cue with 150 ac­tivists at Lake Bu­loke where they were pitt­ed against 2,000 shoot­ers. One of the brave res­cue team mem­bers, Julie Sy­mons was shot in the face by a 14 year old shoot­er who was il­le­gal­ly shoot­ing birds on the wa­ter. She suf­fered fa­cial in­juries, lost teeth and pel­lets embedd­ed in her skin.

The beau­ty and tran­quil­i­ty just be­fore the killing starts

10 Up­roar and ALV res­cuers gathered at Mac­do­n­alds                                                    

Swamp and were pitt­ed against sev­er­al hun­dred shoot­ers. The guns start­ed blaz­ing short­ly af­ter 7am and it was young birds who dropped out of the sky. The ma­jor­i­ty of dead and in­jured birds col­lect­ed by the res­cue team were young ju­ve­niles, some on­ly a cou­ple months old.

The heavy rains and flood­ing in the Kerang area made for a longer breed­ing sea­son and th­ese young birds were lit­er­al­ly caught in the hail of pel­lets. It is un­for­giv­able that the Lib­er­al Gov­ern­ment not on­ly al­lowed a duck sea­son this year but they ex­tend­ed the shoot­ing time to three months. Not on­ly did th­ese young birds have no chance, but many who did sur­vive are now or­phans and un­able to fend for them­selves and will die a slow death from star­va­tion and/or pre­da­tion un­pro­tect­ed by their mothers.

A duck res­cuer looks for signs of life in this bird who was just blast­ed out of the sky.

The Po­lice and DSE kept a close guard on the alv/up­roar                                                    

Sad­ly this bird didn't sur­vive

base­camp and at the end of the morn­ing con­fis­cat­ed all                                                    

Hun­ters laugh­ing as the bird (be­low) pad­dles in a daze af­ter tak­ing a pel­let shot to the head

the dead birds we had col­lect­ed. Three bad­ly in­jured                                                    

She pad­dled in­to thick reeds where we were un­able to re­trieve her and get her to ve­t­eri­nary care.

birds were brought in by our kayak teams and two of th-                                                    

A hun­ter car­ry­ing a pile of dead corps­es that he has shot so far this morn­ing. Un­der the law shoot­ers can on­ly kill ten na­tive game birds per day, but the re­al­i­ty is that more are shot with many birds aban­doned float­ing dead on the wa­ter

-­ese died short­ly af­ter. One young bird was found dazed                                                    

We found corps­es on the wa­ter all morn­ing, birds that had been shot and aban­doned by hun­ters.

sitt­ing on a log amidst all the may­hem and loud shoot-                                                    

A res­cuer bring­ing in a wound­ed bird re­trieved by our kayak team

-­ing. She was brought in and put in a warm dry hos­pi­tal ‘pen’ and then tak­en to a vet. Sad­ly, though she ap­peared alert and sitt­ing ful­ly con­s­cious an ex­am­i­na­tion showed she suf­fered ex­ten­sive in­juries.

Update on Rescued Piglets Coco and Chloe

The pi­glets res­cued by Up­roar and ALV are do­ing much bet­ter than hoped. Co­co has had surgery to have her leg lanced and drained un­der anaes­thet­ic. We thought we had lost Chloe a few times but she’s an amaz­ing lit­tle pig­gie and keeps bounc­ing back. She has no suck­ing re­flex so her in­fant fo­ru­mu­la has to be sy­ringed in­to her mouth to keep her alive. Chloe need­ed mi­nor surgery as well. She is now re­al­ly start­ing to pick up and even tried to chase some of the dogs liv­ing at her sanc­tuary!

A huge thank you to the amaz­ing staff at John the Vet who have re­fused to take any mon­ey for look­ing af­ter Co­co and Chloe.

Pig Rescue!

Up­roar and An­i­mal Lib­er­a­tion Vic­to­ria have teamed up to                                                    

save pigs from slaugh­ter this Christ­mas.

To read about the res­cue, see pho­tos and video of the con­di­tions in­side the pig­gery and the res­cue team in ac­tion, and get some great ideas on how you can en­joy a cru­el­ty free Christ­mas, vis­it our Pig Res­cue page >

Uproar for the Whales

The Sea Shep­herd No Com­pro­mise Antarc­tic whale de­fence cam­paign launch par­ty is on tonight and the Up­roar ‘to­fu tanks’ are do­nat­ing their ser­vices for a ‘slave auc­tion’.

If you’re in Mel­bourne come along for some fun and bid on ser­vices like body­build­ing and pow­er­lift­ing train­ing, per­so­n­alised ve­g­an nu­tri­tion pro­grammes, and self de­fence class­es. All mon­ey raised goes di­rect­ly to the Antarc­tic whale de­fence cam­paign.

Up­date (Novem­ber 26): The night was a great suc­cess with many thou­sands of dol­lars raised for the Sea Shep­herd No Com­pro­mise cam­paign. Thanks to ev­ery­one                                                    

who came along and bid on our ‘to­fu tanks’ and other items up for auc­tion!

Up­roar's Hay­den Cronin with a sal­vaged piece of the Ady Gil, the sub­ject of fierce bid­d­ing

The Uproar Vegan Store

We’re thrilled to an­nounce that the new Up­roar On­line Store is all sys­tems go! Now you can get                                                    

low cost high qual­i­ty ve­g­an goodies with all pro­ceeds go­ing di­rect­ly to­wards help­ing an­i­mals!

We’re start­ing out with some fan­tas­tic prod­ucts in­clud­ing the Veg 1 mul­ti­vi­ta­min for­mu­lat­ed es­pe­cial­ly for ve­g­ans (at $15.95 for a three month sup­p­ly it’s al­most a steal), a long last­ing alu­minum free ve­g­an de­o­do­r­ant (‘Dusk‘ by Her­ban Cow­boy) that ac­tu­al­ly works, and a pea pro­tein pow­der which is ide­al for use in sports, weight con­trol or as a source of valu­able ami­no acids.

We’ll be ad­d­ing more prod­ucts over the com­ing weeks and hope to even­tu­al­ly be­come a one-stop-shop-till-you-drop cru­el­ty free on­line store. Keep check­ing back as we’ll be ad­d­ing more and more prod­ucts very soon – cho­co­lates, mock meats and ve­g­an cheese, egg re­plac­ers, nu­tri­tio­n­al yeast, whipped cream in a can, tee shirts,                                                    

stick­ers and much much more. Let us know your favou­rites and we’ll do our best to get them in.

We ship di­rect­ly to your door wher­ev­er you are in the world, and Vic­to­rians have the op­tion of pick­ing up their goods from our St Kil­da store­room. The best part is that all pro­ceeds go di­rect­ly to­wards our cam­paigns to help an­i­mals. So by shop­ping with us you’re not on­ly gett­ing great ve­g­an goods for su­per cheap prices, you’re help­ing save an­i­mals from abuse.

The Up­roar Store – Cru­el­ty Free, Eth­i­cal, Ve­g­an Shop­ping

Vegan Tank: Not tofu-k with

Up­roar’s Noah Han­ni­bal was re­cent­ly in­ter­viewed by Joshua Katch­er for the The Dis­cern­ing Brute – Fashion, Food and Eti­quette for the Eth­i­cal­ly Hand­some Male. Click here for the in­ter­view: Ve­g­an Tank: Not To­fu-K with

“Noah Han­ni­bal, AKA Ve­g­an Tank, is one tough Aussie. That’s right, not ev­ery dude down-un­der is clog­ging up all their plumb­ing at Out­back Steak House, or hunt­ing crocks and kan­ga­roos with boomerangs and giant knives… Com­pet­i­tive pow­er­lifter, hero to an­i­mals, pho­to­g­ra­pher, de­sign­er, and all-around gentle­man, Ve­g­an Tank is a true 21st cen­tu­ry man, blaz­ing a trail that re­defines mas­culini­ty and stands proud­ly by con­s­ci­en­tious machis­mo.”